Analysing the Stats
I have some interesting Top 100 Stats for TheSOSGame. For some reason I got noticed in Canada and Turkey (and a few other countries). The Turkish results are quite interesting as I have progress quite far (currently 2nd and 3rd most popular in Free Family and Free Board Games).
In Canada I have been slowly creeping up in the charts (very slowly). But the Turkish stats are very interesting. I am currently 28th for Free Games overall (in Turkey) and if you look carefully you can see the green dot where I hit the Top Free Apps in Turkey at number 64!!!
Now the Turkish market isn't too big. So I am not too excited about it but I does show the relationship between the being top in the subcategories and how it equates to the parent sections. I have tried to get a few reviewers to notice the app but so far nothing has emerged so these statistics are just based on the influence of rank (if you can somehow get into the ranking to start with).
My ratings have been mostly 1 Stars but there have been a few 5 Stars and given the rating systems negative bias it is to be expected (by still hard on the ego). I tried to improve my rating by asking people to review my app (I added a custom ad into the game (via Mobclix) and got 210 clicking on the ad to do a review. Unfortunately nobody actually did the review (as far as I can tell). The link opened up the App Store on the iPhone which then requires you to enter your password. That my have scared people off, which is far enough. Also there is no way to get them to do a simple rating (as far as I can tell) so they may also have borked at doing a full review.
Well this is been interesting. Will be fun to see what happens next.
My conclusion from all this is that you need to get noticed. Once you get into the Top 100s then it seems to feed itself quite a bit. But getting in there is a bit of a hit and miss. Getting a big App review site to review you would be a key way into the store (or even better getting an Apple feature!!!).
Ops I forgot. I go the stats via MajicRank and I forgot to turn off the default setting which gets only the Big 8 stores. Changed that in the preferences so that is why the Turkish stats start on the 31/12 (so no idea what happened before that).